There isn't much grass in the desert, but where is the grass greener at the moment?
It's only a matter of WHEN there will be vacancies, & not a matter if & by how much the grass is greener, people WILL leave.
The pay award at DXB may not be great, but there isn't that much money floating about for Dubai government organisations - there is still billions of dirhams in debt to pay off.
Considering no increase for approx.2 years & now with this negligible increase, & if this will be for 2 years.... then a merely 1% is what we are ending up with!
The customer takes a business view of life. Whilst the current package continues to attract sufficient numbers of suitably experienced controllers, the customer will struggle to understand why they should fork out for larger pay rises.
Yes it is a business for the Customer, but after all the emails of the annual increase in movements, passenger figures & cargo, then we would have expected something better!
Is it worth all the hassle of recruiting more & more ATCOs replacing those who have resigned & are resigning, instead of merely keeping the present ATCOs happy & retaining stability at the same time?
We`re a fairly realistic bunch in Dubai and the main concern has more to do with the fairly dubious way in which individual pay awards have been decided rather than the amount.
Instructing supervisors to rate everyone at average in their assessments as it was just a starting point for the next year and wouldn`t mean anything and then turn round and state that the only thing pay rises were based on was this assessment is a pretty poor show.
It would be interesting if this same H.R. 'stunt' repeats itself next year - it's gonna be another joke!
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